My home town of Wollongong is starting to see a few bottle shops moving into the world of craft beer. One of the newer ones is Crown West Cellars, way up the […]
Anchor Steam in Wollongong
My own beer glass cupboard
Over the weekend my wife announced that I had to do something about my beer glass collection. Seems she thought it was taking up so much space in the cupboard where we […]
Where are the longnecks?
Yesterday’s post about James Squire’s pint-sized bottles got me thinking, why do so few craft breweries put their beer into longnecks? Aside from the granddad of the craft brewing biz in Australia […]
Size does matter – a bit
I’m always going to have a soft spot for James Squire, even though I hardly drink the stuff any more. I hardly drink it these days for the same reason I have […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Russian River’s Pliny the Younger is a beer that’s only available for weeks a year and beer geeks queue up for a glass. Here’s a doco about the Pliny phenomenon. And it […]
Innis & Gunn is no fun
This here is a beer I’d looked at on the shelves at my local Dan Murphy’s for quite a while before buying it. Part of the aversion was due to the price […]
Lady on the label
Have to admit, I’m a sucker for a great beer label. Even if the beer is crap, and even if I know it’s crap, if it has a cool label, I’m going […]
Chimay is okay
I just love the weirdness of Trappist beers. Why are they weird? Let me count the ways. 1) They’re made by monks. Come on, that’s weird, yeah? 2) There’s a Trappist beer police […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Got a spare hour? Then watch this cool doco about craft beer in the United States.
Books and beer
This photo is of the beer section of my “to read” book shelves. As it contains 11 books (not including the book Bad Science, which has snuck in there due to lack […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 